PBS is attacking the NRA

[Plane]

  Making Charlton Hesston look like a dolt was skilled and difficult work.

    PBS could have presented the facts as they are even if they had to find them without the help of the NRA.

   I did appreciate that they did not go into the supposed control of the NRA by gun manufacturing companies , or perhaps I would have liked it better if they had , and found that to be a fantasy, but that would be a lot to expect.

    The overall tone was one of tragic regret that the NRA was so effective , not a celebration of good sense and democracy in action.

      The basic premise that gun control is desirable goes unexamined. The harm done and the harm that could be done by gun control is ignored.

      Being invited to speak to PBS is a little like being interviewed by Pravda, the editing is the power.

[sirs]

    The overall tone was one of tragic regret that the NRA was so effective , not a celebration of good sense and democracy in action.

      The basic premise that gun control is desirable goes unexamined. The harm done and the harm that could be done by gun control is ignored.

      Being invited to speak to PBS is a little like being interviewed by Pravda, the editing is the power.

100% spot on!!

[Xavier_Onassis]

You continue to amaze me with your total stupidity and ignorance.

[sirs]

You continue to amaze at your knee jerk attempt to use me as your go-to inability to refute a point someone else was making   

[Christians4LessGvt]

Arned Citizens Fight Back!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSd6x5iy6xU

[sirs]

How dare anyone defend themselves.  Don't they realize that if they didn't have access to a firearm that the bad guys would........hmmmm.......help me out here.......leave them alone?

[Christians4LessGvt]

SIRS....I heard the first 3 French Policemen on the scene were not even armed with guns!

I wonder if the Police Officer on the sidewalk was unarmed?

Crazy!

[sirs]

Sounds exactly like the world our good professor advocates, one where in reality, only the criminals have guns, acquired illegally of course.  Just so long as we "get those guns off the streets" (and out of the hands of the law abiding citizen)

[Xavier_Onassis]

Why was Wayne LaPierre asleep at the switch in NYC?

[sirs]

Did NY approve Wayne for a CCW permit?? 

Not to mention that a person legally allowed to carry a firearm is not acting as some suppliemental law enforcement.  That's not the NRA's function, or what they teach.  If you weren't so blatantly and purposely ignorant of what the NRA is all about, you'd grasp that concept

[Xavier_Onassis]

So what was that asshole LaPierre jabbering about?  Where are the "good guys with guns" supposed to prevent "bad guys with guns"?
There are too many nuts with guns, and they do NOT make anyone safe.
 

[sirs]

So what was that asshole LaPierre jabbering about? 

I don't know....you're the one pulling stuff from every which way, in some transparent effort to change the subject.  Perhaps you can provide an example, where some context can be provided.  Good guys with guns OBVIOUSLY makes everyone safer.  Be it good police officers or good law abiding citizens.  No one can be everywhere at once, so bad guys with guns will occasionally achieve their desired ends. 

But why you keep answering your own question is beyond me, and helps reinforce what I and so many others have been saying for years.  Areas with more permissive gun laws and CCW permits have less violent crime than those locations that are far more heavily restricted, such as NY.  It's too bad NY didn't have more realist CCW holders.....that assassination may have been prevented, though doubtful, since it happened in the blink of an eye, when not even another police officer who could have been no more than 15ft away could have seen and stopped it

[Xavier_Onassis]

LaPierre failed to prevent a gun nut from killing a couple of cops.  He is not a Good Guy with a Gun he is an asshole with a big mouth, pimping for ads from gun and ammo companies to donate to his wacko organization.

[sirs]

LaPierre's function isn't in preventing radicals from killing cops.  His current function is to support the 2nd amendment, and improve the ability for good guys to better defend himself/herself, from bad guys

[Xavier_Onassis]

Then he should not have made that idiotic statement about how more guns make everyone safer.
His main job is to raise funds for the NRA buy soliciting money from the guns and ammo people.

BBC America, PBS and NPR are far and away the most balanced news coverage in this country. And they report MORE news by far, since what ads they run take up vastly less time.  The network news stuffs seven commercials into most commercial breaks.  Hearing Henry Winkler and Fred Thompson hawk reverse mortgages is not news.